Monika Browarczyk
Biographic Data
| ID | 1355985 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Monika Browarczyk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Monika |
| FAMILY NAME | Browarczyk |
| SIGNATURE | BROWARCZYK M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1369-6695 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
How to Speak of the Unspeakable: Narratives of ViolenceAgainst Women in Hindi Novels about Partition
To date generations of people from South Asia grapple with traumatic experiences of havoc and violence prior to, during and in the aftermath of the Partition of British India. Writings in Punjabi, Urdu, Hindi, and English, i.e. in languages spoken in the regions mostly affected by the turmoil of 1947, reflect the painful process of coming to terms with these experiences and of possible reconciliation with consequences of “the long shadow of parti…
Shades of Violence in South Asia: Introduction
A Place of Endless Exchange.” Interview with Inga Iwasiów
Life Writing at the Crossroads: Autobiographical Theory and Practice in Poland
Sudyka, Lidia. The Language of the Gods in the World of Royal Ladies of Kerala. Toward a History of Women’s Writing in Sanskrit in the 18th- to 20th-century Kerala
But You're So Touchable: The Auto/biographical Narratives of Sujatha Gidla and Yashica Dutt
With Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India (2017) and Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir (2019), two auto/biographical narratives by modern, educated, immigrant women, Sujatha Gidla and Yashica Dutt emerge as new voices of Dalit writing in English. This article analyzes the narrative strategies employed by Gidla and Dutt as they tell of their individual lives intertwined with accounts of their families and the hist…
History and Other Engagements with the Past in Modern South Asian Writing/s
WE are Dalit History: Hindi Dalit Autobiographies and Their Engagements with India’s Past and Present
Life writings had time and again been used as source material for historical research both in the West and the various literary cultures of South Asia. Considering the absence and a deliberate, socially conditioned erasure of Dalit history from the mainstream narratives of Indian historiography, some scholars have introduced the notion of viewing Dalit life writings as exercises in history writing. This article explores several Dalit autobiograph…
History and Other Engagements with the Past in Modern South Asian Writing/s. Varia
“If I return this time I must return greater…”: Kunwar Narain: His Reminiscences and Retellings of the Past
“If I return this time I must return greater...” Kunwar Narain: His Reminiscences and Retellings of the Past Kunwar Narain (1927-2017), an eminent Hindi poet and writer, in his interviews, introductions to published works and public speeches discusses at length matters connected to his writing, poetry and aesthetics, but is somewhat reluctant to share details of his private life. The article is divided into two parts: the former studies the few a…
Opening up Intimate Spaces: Women’s Writing and Autobiography in South Asia
Speaking of the Self: Gender, Performance, and Autobiography in South Asia ed. by Anshu Malhotra and Siobhan Lambert-Hurley
Reviewed by: Speaking of the Self: Gender, Performance, and Autobiography in South Asia ed. by Anshu Malhotra and Siobhan Lambert-Hurley Monika Browarczyk (bio) Anshu Malhotra and Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, editors. Speaking of the Self: Gender, Performance, and Autobiography in South Asia. Duke UP, 2015. 312 pp. ISBN 978-0822359913, $26.95. Speaking of the Self takes up the ambitious task of rewriting the practice of auto-biography research on Sout…
The Double Curse”—a Dalit Woman Autobiography in Hindi by Kausalya Baisantri
Kausalya Baisantri authored a Dalit woman autobiography in Hindi— the first to my knowledge—in 1999. The article draws on the ‘narrative self’ concept as the theoretical apparatus for the analysis of the text’s content and context. The history of the autobiography genre in Hindi overlaps with the beginnings and advancement of prose in pre-modern and modern literature in these languages, which developed at the end of the 19th and the beginning of …
The Double Curse”—a Dalit Woman Autobiography in Hindi by Kausalya Baisantri
Kausalya Baisantri authored a Dalit woman autobiography in Hindi— the first to my knowledge—in 1999. The article draws on the ‘narrative self’ concept as the theoretical apparatus for the analysis of the text’s content and context. The history of the autobiography genre in Hindi overlaps with the beginnings and advancement of prose in pre-modern and modern literature in these languages, which developed at the end of the 19th and the beginning of …
The Double Curse”—a Dalit Woman Autobiography in Hindi by Kausalya Baisantri
Kausalya Baisantri authored a Dalit woman autobiography in Hindi— the first to my knowledge—in 1999. The article draws on the ‘narrative self’ concept as the theoretical apparatus for the analysis of the text’s content and context. The history of the autobiography genre in Hindi overlaps with the beginnings and advancement of prose in pre-modern and modern literature in these languages, which developed at the end of the 19th and the beginning of …
Speaking of the Self: Gender, Performance, and Autobiography in South Asia ed. by Anshu Malhotra and Siobhan Lambert-Hurley
Reviewed by: Speaking of the Self: Gender, Performance, and Autobiography in South Asia ed. by Anshu Malhotra and Siobhan Lambert-Hurley Monika Browarczyk (bio) Anshu Malhotra and Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, editors. Speaking of the Self: Gender, Performance, and Autobiography in South Asia. Duke UP, 2015. 312 pp. ISBN 978-0822359913, $26.95. Speaking of the Self takes up the ambitious task of rewriting the practice of auto-biography research on Sout…
Opening up Intimate Spaces: Women’s Writing and Autobiography in South Asia
“If I return this time I must return greater…”: Kunwar Narain: His Reminiscences and Retellings of the Past
“If I return this time I must return greater...” Kunwar Narain: His Reminiscences and Retellings of the Past Kunwar Narain (1927-2017), an eminent Hindi poet and writer, in his interviews, introductions to published works and public speeches discusses at length matters connected to his writing, poetry and aesthetics, but is somewhat reluctant to share details of his private life. The article is divided into two parts: the former studies the few a…
History and Other Engagements with the Past in Modern South Asian Writing/s
WE are Dalit History: Hindi Dalit Autobiographies and Their Engagements with India’s Past and Present
Life writings had time and again been used as source material for historical research both in the West and the various literary cultures of South Asia. Considering the absence and a deliberate, socially conditioned erasure of Dalit history from the mainstream narratives of Indian historiography, some scholars have introduced the notion of viewing Dalit life writings as exercises in history writing. This article explores several Dalit autobiograph…
History and Other Engagements with the Past in Modern South Asian Writing/s. Varia
Sudyka, Lidia. The Language of the Gods in the World of Royal Ladies of Kerala. Toward a History of Women’s Writing in Sanskrit in the 18th- to 20th-century Kerala
But You're So Touchable: The Auto/biographical Narratives of Sujatha Gidla and Yashica Dutt
With Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India (2017) and Coming Out as Dalit: A Memoir (2019), two auto/biographical narratives by modern, educated, immigrant women, Sujatha Gidla and Yashica Dutt emerge as new voices of Dalit writing in English. This article analyzes the narrative strategies employed by Gidla and Dutt as they tell of their individual lives intertwined with accounts of their families and the hist…
A Place of Endless Exchange.” Interview with Inga Iwasiów
Life Writing at the Crossroads: Autobiographical Theory and Practice in Poland
How to Speak of the Unspeakable: Narratives of ViolenceAgainst Women in Hindi Novels about Partition
To date generations of people from South Asia grapple with traumatic experiences of havoc and violence prior to, during and in the aftermath of the Partition of British India. Writings in Punjabi, Urdu, Hindi, and English, i.e. in languages spoken in the regions mostly affected by the turmoil of 1947, reflect the painful process of coming to terms with these experiences and of possible reconciliation with consequences of “the long shadow of parti…
Shades of Violence in South Asia: Introduction
Art (8 works) · History (8 works) · South Asian Studies and Diaspora (8 works) · Literature (7 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · History (5 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (5 works) · Hindi (4 works)